Me lately:
I've become quite girly these days.
20th Century
Art Nouveau
Currently,
Art Nouveau has been a fascination of mine.
I die for the organic nature of this art form,
especially the floral and other plant-inspired motifs.
Art Nouveau became one of the most popular
art forms throughout Europe in the early 1900's.
The French term for 'new art' peaked in popularity
and became an international movement and style of
art, that also transcended into architecture.
I find it fascinating that art
has such a great effect on the world
that's all around us.
From florals, to paintings, to architecture.
Everything transcends into the next.
Lillian Bassman
In the 40’s and 50’s Lillian Bassman was one of very few female photographers working in an industry dominated by men. Shooting mostly for Harpers Bazaar and known for her unique approach to lingerie ads Bassmans signature style offered a sensuous and intimate vision of modern women. Bassman started off as an art student and a painter, “I was good, but I never had the patience so I turned to photography; which I found was more in the mood of how I saw women and how I reacted to them.”
In the late 60’s Bassman decided to dispose of her career, quite literally when she threw away decades worth of prints and negatives. She’d had enough of fashion and the new breed of supermodels infiltrating the scene. “They would walk in and they had 2 hours, and lots of money and they would take pose number 1…pose number 2…pose number 3…and I said, that’s not how I work and that’s not how I feel. So I said, enough.”
Bassman ultimately returned to photography in the early 90’s when a friend found a bag of negatives in her attic. Recently Bassman began manipulating her images in a new way starting a fresh chapter with digital photography. “I enjoyed the dark room, but then all the technology disappeared. The film changed, the paper changed, the liquids changed, it was time for me to change.”
My list of favorite photographs
by Lillian Bassman
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